Wednesday, November 2, 2011

metempirical \met-em-PIR-i-kuhl\, adjective:

1. Beyond or outside the field of experience.
2. Of or pertaining to metempirics.

Metempircal derives from the Greek words met- meaning “beyond or before” and empirical meaning “experience.”

bachelor sip

• to drink water directly from the faucet.

Dude 1: "Hey, you need a glass?"

Dude 2: "Nah, I'll just take a quick bachelor sip."

Trivia

What skilled craftsmen were called upon to reconstruct shredded documents found in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran after its 1979 takeover by Iranian militants?

• Carpet weavers. Some of the reconstructed documents were later published in a book titled Documents from the US. Espionage Den.

History

• North Dakota : became the 39th state; South Dakota became No. 40 on the same day (1889)
• Balfour Declaration: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" (1917)
• Spruce Goose: made of birch, not spruce, the largest flying boat was flown on its first and only flight by its designer, billionaire Howard Hughes (1947)
• Levelland UFO sighting: several separate witnesses in Texas claimed to have seen, late at night, a bright egg-shaped object near which their car engines died (1957)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover: in Britain, publisher Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity for printing the D.H. Lawrence novel (1960)

Birthdays

• Daniel Boone (1734-1820): US explorer and frontiersman, who did not actually wear a coonskin cap
• Marie Antoinette (1755-1793): queen of France during the Revolution who met her end at the guillotine
• James K. Polk (1795-1849): POTUS who fulfilled America's Manifest Destiny; also, Teapot Dome Scandal POTUS Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
• George Boole (1815-1864): mathematician, developer of Boolean algebra
• k.d. lang (50): pop and country singer/songwriter; plus, musicians Jay Black (73), Keith Emerson (67), Carter Beauford (54) and Nelly (36?) and Chris Walla (36)
• David Schwimmer (45): awkward paleontologist Ross on Friends; actor Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) shared this birth date

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